away jails to opposition activists for criticizing is moderate on the web as the gulf state continues to silence anti-government voices. u.k. government make sure people from all walks of life are hit by a belt tightening with the country's most vulnerable now to feel the pinch even more watts. well maybe this is the beginning of the end of justice well let's spit it out. as a political vulture circle over venezuela washington is suspected of plotting eftpos chavez power play as president cancels he's not to ration our health problems.

it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t marina joshua welcome to the program at two years behind bars for a twitter message that's the verdict for two opposition activists in kuwait who criticize the country's rulers on the web the oil rich arab state has intensified its crackdown on the opposition with protests going on there for almost two years now author and journalist have seen returns he points to striking similarities with other u.s. allied states in the region which have seen so-called forgotten revolutions. it's obvious that the united states nato countries desire to keep their thousands of troops in kuwait and as we've seen of course there's been demonstrations in bahrain and of course saudi arabia which are not being covered on any corporate media it's

very difficult to cover the brutal suppression of human rights in these nato and u.s. backed dictatorships the rangers themselves are a different subject because i'm moving. u.s. authorities but in fairness than been some human rights groups that have campaigned for the horrible human rights situation suffered by the. elements the we do and people under a thousand of those stateless in kuwait and anyone really trying to look for greater freedoms in kuwait in sort of forgotten country in terms of the arab spring and in fact kuwait is hosting at the end of this month a whole conference about syria and about humanitarian help for syria so it has a love to say about humanitarian things in syria but it imprisons people to tweet anything against them even though it is one of the most democratic places in the persian gulf arab countries clashes between turkish troops and kurdish rebels in

southeastern turkey have left thirteen people dead the three decade long conflict over self rule has already claimed tens of thousands of lives now turkey is also facing the emergence of an independent kurdish enclave in neighboring war torn syria as a ridiculous can our reports by seeking a regime change in damascus ankara could be further inflaming violence at home. that's all turkey's prime minister may have shot himself. by openly supporting the syrian opposition the country's leader may have overlooked the fact syria's political mayhem may have on turkey especially in the border areas largely populated by kurds some observers believe any turmoil in the region between on karate damascus will have a devastating effect on to guns country. turkey now involved virtually in a war it's used as a base by the syrian rebels and now that the kurds are more just perfectly predictable but the dangers here are

a few. early guns reasoning behind his support for the rebels can stem from lessons of the recent past. what do you. make. with the syrian opposition because they've made the same mistake in iraq. the kurdish region which is. now. thriving again for the problems in syria but that could come as a dear cost on current conflict if you turks and kurds has been simmering for some thirty years with thousands of victims of both sides in fact the last eighteen months have seen seven hundred deaths from the confrontation between turkish security forces and the kurdistan workers party or p k k recognized by some western nations as a terrorist organization some believe the thirty million kurds are ready to rise at

a moment's notice to at least gain some autonomy if not reach their ultimate goal the kurdish state the syrian crisis may very well provide such an opportunity and. the outcome of the conflict the kurds in syria are set for some sort of autonomy and. syrian kurds so will have their own statues pulled autonomy for long years we also struggling for a democratic autonomy we want our identity to be recognized and we won the. democratic autonomy regional autonomy then we should have our south governance right but these desires seem to fall on deaf ears within the turkish government

within caracas kurdish conflicts coming under increasing scrutiny from human rights organizations accusations of rape torture kidnappings and use of chemical weapons against suppose a pretty separatist have been backed by independent groups the reports and investigations and are a major stumbling block on and crusade for e.u. membership the turkish government nevertheless seems determined to avoid the issue altogether instead of turning its attention across the border into syria in a ghost go r.t. . our respondents are closely following the developments and around syria viruses twitter feed so log on to check all the latest updates on this and other issues. because he.

was beautifully. but as well as president to thomas is to miss his inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony indefinitely due to poor health and his request past the national sampling and opposition claims that the move to settle later date is unconstitutional pepe escobar from asia times online told us there will now be manny players willing to stand in his place. show his will is not a monolithic saying like would dare to say the communist party in china dad least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez health because there will be an internal struggle for power inside chevys will it make the same time we're going

to have more possibility just a horror of interference trying to rule that you know as louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington who have all the news and you will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just shut these books let's get it out. also ahead in the program here on our alleged u.s. army we could hear bradley manning gets one hundred twelve days off of his eventual sentence but could still face life imprisonment. but we were court on how sound british families are paying the price for the country's failure to counter the rising number of dog attacks that and more just ahead. more belt tightening is looming for the u.k. as parliament moves a step further to cal benefits a new bill seeks to limit an increase in welfare spanning to one percent

a year and could see the most vulnerable being hit hardest it also comes against a backdrop of a stare the measures britain introduced as it struggles to heal its ailing economy is laura smith reports. members of parliament have voted in favor of this bill which would have a one percent cap on benefits welfare benefits ministers say this cap is needed because the states handouts have been rising twice as fast as pay as in work pay in recent years this bill will now go through to further reading so it's not passed yet but we can expect significant changes to the welfare budget in the years to come it's all about this kind of what we've seen in recent weeks this this strivers versus scalia versus thing where the government says that it wants to support people who are going out to work trying hard to make money versus the people who are staying in bed all day and they say it's fair because public sector pay. is being kept and private sector pay is rising below the level of inflation so why

should people who are on benefits get more money and the tories go all about having to support these people and the stamp out this benefits culture and make it more profitable for people to be working then for people to be sitting at home on benefits but again not everyone agrees obviously a lot of it job seekers allowance employment support allowance that does go to people who are out of work but a lot of it goes to in fact two thirds of it goes to the lower paid workers so people who are strivers at these various tribes that we've been talking about essential workers nurses rubbish collectors people without whom the country would come down to its knees and that's what labor's talking about working tax credits child benefit those kinds of things and in fact a charity the children's society has come out and said that if you are single or single primary school teacher or a nurse with two children you're going to be losing four hundred twenty pounds a year by two thousand and fifteen under these new measures so certainly very controversial it says we're not all in it together in fact what we are what we what

the government's proposing to do according to labor is hits households towards the bottom of the socio economic scale much harder than they hit households further up the scale the average person in the street is very keen to stamp. these guys as the go as the government initially called them but now is backing away from that people who are staying home with the curtains drawn in bed while ordinary people while the strivers go out to work. the fact is that these measures according to labor would hit those poor children in poverty they say of allowing those association says it could contribute to more homelessness it'll hit women particularly hard because that the people who child tax credit go to for example and of course people struggling to pay for rising inflation rising fuel prices rising food prices and to put food on the table and then on the other side of the coin we've got a tax cut for the rich that will be introduced in april next anything happens if

you over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year after april you'll be paying five percent less tax at the moment you pay fifty percent it'll be forty five percent if you're owning a million pounds that's going to save you forty thousand pounds per year and people are up in arms about the. private bradley manning accused of sharing classified u.s. army files with the whistle blowing web site and we get leaks will get a one hundred twelve days cut from his eventual plan of the victory for his the fans team comes after a judge ruled that manning's nine months in prison amounted to bring trial punishment and was excessively harsh retired colonel morris davis told us to the military is just trying to spare its blushes. now think the government here is overplayed their hand if you recall when the wiki leaks documents were going to come out it reminded me of the y2k scare everybody kind of braced and expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think the government really overplayed i'm not aware of there being any thing more than embarrassment that has

been caused by the wiki leaks documents there been any operations that have been compromised or any individuals harmed i'm not aware of it but it certainly seems at this point this is more of a case of embarrassment than actual harm it seems to be that there are good leaks and they're badly the administration has been accused of being more than happy to leak information that makes the people feel good or makes the administration look good they're supposed to be a congressional hearing with the movie coming out this week as zero dark thirty and are supposed to be a congressional hearing on whether the white house facilitated leaking classified information to the producers of the movie there's been other instances like the killing of osama bin laden the internet attack on the iranian facilities that you know when it helps make the administration look good than a leak is ok when it's an embarrassment like it is with bradley manning you know it's a capital offense i'll bring you more information and analysis on bradley manning's

case on our web site r.t. dot com so use our common section to let us know what you think. and also we've got the story of a chinese father who's ordered his own nation find out more online. tragedy . has rolled off a slope. at a russian. war news is heading your way after this short break stay with us. the government no longer represents a belief that the people are going to take such as. we.

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leave the pentagon and the cia the candidate for the post of spy chief presidential counterterrorism adviser john brennan is a strong advocate of aggressive cia tactics and how security kind of arsenal drone program is one of the agency's main tools for brown from an american anti-war activist and author believes brennan's nomination can. because we're we're eliminating so many emotional and in terms of john brennan what is the first time he went public with this drone program where he said and this is

a quote there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proportion cheaper solution of the capabilities that we've been able to develop now for john brennan to say that the only two possibilities war movie or a full article wire he knows that we were told was which was going to be a luxury but i think for certain folks building it was much more serious than that is that he's delusional paul craig roberts a former assistant secretary of the treasury told us earlier he's saying if brennan is confirmed as the cia heads the agency will further expand its powers granted moving. to a more powerful position which. the cia will like what you see here is the movement of the cia away from being an intelligence agency the toward being your police agency and the military force the. war on terror is

becoming more and more directed at the american population it's the american population that's being spied on around the clock and we now have drones flying here domestically all of this is coming home or here are the drones and the unaccountability of these growing police agencies well later this hour a watch or exam a report on people's growing discontent over police action against american citizens during protests. tension between loyalists and police in belfast over the flying of you know flag are far from easing after pro-grade of protesters pelted security forces with petrol bombs for six consecutive day now a long m.p. for belfast east says the violence was a planned action and those in charge should be held responsible i think the problem is that there was political orchestration certainly in the initial stages of this particular on rest to try for example to use very emotive and inflammatory language

around his action that my party was going to take kissing up of repping die in the flag when in fact we were opposing a total from nationalist to take the flag dying retard like there was a direct targeting of myself as the amp a for a spell fast in all of this the way i'm not a member of the clan so i do not have a hope so there was a political orchestration behind this and i think that those who worked up a year on tension which existed around this issue which is the mode of i think of the bar some of the responsibility for the consequences of that. well some other international stories now. has released the suspect in the attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in the libyan city of benghazi for lack of evidence the u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed in the attack on september eleventh last year the twenty six year old tunisian who was extradited from turkey was one of the very few people detained over the attached u.s. have still failed to make any real progress in the investigation.

one hundred people are still missing after a wildfire swept through southeastern australia though temperatures cold on wednesday firefighters are still battling scores of blazes and a new heat wave is forecast for the weekend a combination of soaring temperatures and dry windy conditions since last friday sparked fires that burned vast parts of forest and former. u.s. military contractor who's a were accused of torturing and abusing prisoners in baghdad during the iraq war will pay five million dollars compensation as the first known case of detainees being compensated by american contractors for the abuse they received the mistreatment of prisoners in abu ghraib came to light in two thousand and four after a military investigation with graphic photos taken at the scene caused public outrage . well this week marks the eleventh anniversary of another in a tourist prison the guantanamo bay detention camp in cuba our special coverage with expert opinion and analysis starts this friday. to go.

beyond the call. guantanamo the danger for business. looks at the interrogation center of american. well for many of us a dog is a man's best friend by its well the rising number of serious attacks in the u.k. there is a growing call for more to be done to regulate these sometimes dangerous paths are to sarah ferguson went to meet one family that's paying the price for britain's relaxed attitude to dark. it was a nightmarish attack that lasted just a few minutes which these parents wake up every day earlier this year and two year old son with recently set upon by a neighbor's dog distraught. soldiers and there's been six months

now and still is on going surgery. it's not going on with staying at his grand house when he managed to slip out latest what happened next very nearly cost the child's life we were looking for him. the dogs got him so then we ran round the corner the dog chewing into pieces. of chicken a dog. the release of. it all to seconds earlier it would have happened if. they say it was a pair. of the guard. also. an intruder karen stanley maintains the attack happened in the alleyway next to their house and not on their neighbor's property the law in the u.k. only covers attacks on public land they say take place on private property are

often impossible to prosecute even they occur the number of dog attacks in the u.k. is increasing more than six thousand people were committed to hospital in two thousand and eleven and the problems with the law go even further the dangerous dog act bans for breeds but organizations such as the docs say blame the owner not the animal but we believe in the principle of deed not breeds it's about what the. trained dog . in this country is not preventative actually take those aspects into account now here in los about how dogs can but the truth is that rules are also hurting them every year countless innocent dogs are put down simply because of the way last year we had to put to sleep just hundreds of dogs that arrived here on site it's just under two thousand dogs charities and politicians agree it's time control changed

there appears little consensus on just how it should be done i think everybody. in government and in parliament cross party. to see movement on this and we can't understand why it's taken so long somebody ought to get a grip on this i'm going to move on because what's happening is we're still having a dogs and a big issue with irresponsible owners and meanwhile all the abandoned washing up in places like dogs when it's a tragedy for the government agency he's remit this fals and say this is a situation. they're trying to rectify in a statement to say it's compulsory might could tipping of pants and legal changes under discussion and it's all make and then the same but that's little comfort that the care in the family is that they were going to. lose days wages money.

i mean his for his well being but if the ball didn't attack him he would be in a situation to be a happy family and he won't be a long one of his own and if there were zero changing the rules it's too late to care and while the ladies drank alone the how pursue. another tragedy is simply waiting to happen. as promised earlier here's our special report america on coming your way in just a few minutes to. choose your language. of choice because we know if you're going to show some. truths to the consensus. choose the opinions that immigrate to.

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and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seed anyway district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different arisan is trying to break you everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the not percent of the time of record profits of rights it is asked of the very same people that have made a lucrative and a rich corporation that they now want to you will benefit by acceptable form up they want to feel the rise it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the body say it's about saving a million dollars next year but what do you think that this car negotiation is really about this kyra negotiate.